Edwin Bidwell Wilson,
for The Last Unpublished Notes of Williard J. Gibbs
John Frederick Lewis Award
Established by a gift from the widow of John F. Lewis, to honor the outstanding maritime lawyer who played a major role in various cultural institutions in Philadelphia. Since 1981 the award has recognized the best book published by the Society in a given year.
1963
1962
E . Wyllys Andrews,
for Excavations at Dzibilchaltun, Northwestern Yucatan, Mexico
1961
Crawford Hallock Greenewalt,
for The Iridescent Colors of Hummingbird Feathers
1960
G. Ledyard Stebbins,
for The Role of Hybridization in Evolution
1959
Frank Lappin Horsfall,
for Can Viruses Be Managed?
1958
Jesse W. Beams,
for The Magnetically Supported Equlibrium Ultracentrifuge
1957
Kenneth M. Setton,
for The Byzantine Background to the Italian Renaissance
1956
Geroid T. Robinson,
for Stalin's Vision of Utopia: the Future Communist Society
1955
John C. Trever,
for Studies in the Problem of Dating the Dead Sea Scrolls
1954
Robert Livingston Schuyler,
for British Imperial Theory and American Territorial Policy - A Suggested Relationship
1953
Bart J. Bok,
for Studies of the Southern Milky Way
1952
Otto Neugebauer,
for The Babylonian Method for the Computation of the Last Visibilities of Mercury
1951
Joseph J. Spengler,
for Economic Factors in the Development of Densely Populated Areas
1950
Sewall Wright,
for Population Structure in Evolution
1949
Wallace O. Fenn,
for Physiology of Exposures to Abnormal Concentrations of the Respiratory Gases
